Bri’s Favorite Songs: Part 1 – CHH

I’ve listened to a lot of Christian Hip Hop over the years. Here’s some of my favorite songs of the genre featuring the verses I like in particular. I think they represent it pretty well. There’s a big spectrum of it from pretty much sermons put to music to satire. These lyrics are more straightforward and I think both new and old fans will enjoy.

When the beat to this song starts, you know something’s about to go down. It gets everyone hype at concerts. This is one of the first songs that made me fall in love with CHH. It’s a classic.

I know a lot of people out there scared they’re gon’ die A couple of them thinking they’ll be livin’ in the sky But while I’m here livin’ man I gotta ask why, what am here fo’ I gotta figure out Waste my life no I gotta make it count If Christ is real then what am I gonna do about Everything in Luke 12: 15 down to 21 You’ve really gotta go and check it out Paul said if Christ ain’t resurrected we’ve wasted our lives Well that implies that our life’s built around Jesus being alive Everyday I’m living tryin’ to show the world why Christ is more than everything you’ll ever try Better than pretty women and sinning and living To get a minute of any women and men that you admire It ain’t no lie

We’re created for Him Outta the dust he made us for Him Elects us and he saves us for Him Jesus comes and he raises for Him Magnify the Father why bother with something lesser He made us so we could bless Him To the world we confess Him, resurrects Him So I know I got life Matter fact better man I know I got Christ If you don’t see His ways in my days and nights You can hit my brakes you can stop my life Then I lost my rights I lost my life Forget the money cars and toss that ice The cost is Christ And they could never offer me anything on the planet that would cost that price.

It’s pieces of perfect symphony A Mozart of irony The Vincent Van Gogh that only paints with serendipity He be dippin’ His brushes into messy blotches of coincidences And attackin’ that canvas like every splatter had a destiny Broaden y’all’s lenses a little wider you’d see that perfect symmetry Redeemed Boy, it’s all on purpose I’m still off on purpose My Papi takes the worthless And brandishes a stamp of one-of-a-kind and priceless A cosmic thrift shopper, Macklemore could only imagine Buyin’ stuff He made Himself from dust and words In other words: us And this is all my confidence for the 626 and the Exodus If you certain you was blood purchased Please come stand wit us

This song is off Lecrae’s Church Clothes mixtape, and introduced me to Humble Beast artists, for which I am so grateful. Odd Thomas’s passion is felt to convict those who think they can be saved by their works.

You probably have it all figured out, right? Like your the type that believes that if you act right then that just might make you righteous in God’s sight You’ve been a really good person, you followed the good book as much as you could, you probably didn’t go to church as much as you should, but it’s all good I mean you never really killed anybody, never really steal from anybody, you never lusted much, or did much, touching of any bodies. You never use the Lord’s name in vain, and you respect you neighbor, you try to maintain peace, love your enemies and not hold on to anger You really believe that you could receive God’s favor by your good deeds and right behavior But you’re dead in your transgressions and need a savior Cause you could never win God’s approval with the removal of sinful discretions – your righteous acts of removing God’s wrath is in fact the biggest misconception…